A Victorian man intends to sue the State Government after being
detained in quarantine.
John-Lee Berridge says Victorian health authorities made a
mistake about quarantine and he should not have been detained when
Victoria suddenly shut the border to New South Wales on 1 January
2020, forcing thousands of travelling Victorians to head home or
face mandatory quarantine.
62,000 people were stuck in queues at checkpoints scrambling to
make the deadline on New Year's Day, and more than 2,000
Victorians remain stranded in New South Wales still, with Victoria
showing no signs of reopening it's border any time soon.
Mr Berridge contends that he flew into Avalon Airport at 7pm,
well before the border closure was in place, and was wrongly forced
into quarantine. Fed up that his pleas to be let out weren't
being heard, he tried to escape the hotel on Boxing Day, but was
caught and again detained. Now, he says he intends to seek further
legal advice with the intention of
